The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom and Morality

by Mary Midgley

Book Overview

In The Ethical Primate, Mary Midgley, 'one of the sharpest critical pens in the West' according to the Times Literary Supplement, addresses the fundamental question of human freedom.
Scientists and philosophers have found it difficult to understand how each human-being can be a living part of the natural world and still be free. Midgley explores their responses to this seeming paradox and argues that our evolutionary origin explains both why and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415095301
• ISBN13: 9780415095303
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary